Wednesday, October 24, 2012

T#082 PHYSICAL & SPIRITUAL DEATHS --- for our understanding & THEREAFTER PRIORITIZE OUR CONCERN for EITHER!


We are PHYSICALLY DEAD

  • when our body IS SEPARATED-OFF FROM our spirit (>>James 2:26).
  • When our body DIES, it returns to dust in the earth;
  • while our spirit returns to GOD WHO gave it (>>Ecclesiastes 12:7)!

And, our SOUL
IS SEPARATED-OFF FROM

the world's
time and spatial location

  • by virtue of THE DEATH of our body. 
  • Our SELF (our SOUL) made up of our Intelligences, Emotions, Urges & Appetites & Wills)
  • at this stage,
  • is rendered inutile, incapable of relating us vis-à-vis the world
  • in the absence of the body.
  • Our PERSON suffers the loss of consciousness
  • in relation to the environment, people and events
  • that we used to be with (>>Ecclesiastes 9:5-10).

We are SPIRITUALLY DEAD

  • ....... as long as our SOUL
  • is held captive or enslaved by our sinnings
  • because we ARE SEPARATED-OFF FROM GOD
  • by such enslavement or captivity!
  • For the wages of sinnings is DEATH:

(>>Romans 6:16-23)


1. our PARTIAL often slow but our HURRIED SEPARATION FROM The World of ... QUESTS for 1-RECOGNITION, 2-FAME, 3-FORTUNE, INFLUENCE, POSITION, POWER, and SOVEREIGNTY!

  • we call sickness and accidents!

2. our COMPLETE & FINAL SEPARATION FROM The World

  • from loss of oxygen supply from our lungs and/or in our circulatory system for at least eight minutes
  • we call physical death!

3. our THAT VERY INSTANT OF sinning SEPARATION-OFF FROM GOD

  • we call spiritual DEATH!
  • SO, even before our physical death,
  • we have been for a time already
  • continuingly...., or now and then....,
  • spiritually dead
  • because we have all sinned and fallen short
  • of the glory of GOD
  • (>>Roman 3:23, >>1st John 1:8-10)!!!
  • Physical death is no issue at all,
  • we all find agreement among ourselves
  • that we all will die, physically!

The PRIORITY ISSUE

  • [to learnunderstand, and for us to take our stand at now(!) 
  • and be for the rest of our physical life reckoning with]

is the knowledge
about spiritual death

  • SO THAT THE TRUTH in Hosea 4:6
  • will not befall us and
  • our loved-ones we are to share
  • this particular knowledge with!


WE may, as in this
present timebe whole
and intact ….

spirit, SOUL and body

(>>>T#032)
  • yet, because of our sinnings,
  • we are spiritually DEAD ---
  • --- SEPARATED-OFF FROM GOD!
  • WE are spiritually DEAD
  • even and emphatically so, as we go through

    living in conformity with The World!
  • (>>Romans 12:1-2)
  • This is why we were called-out (ekklesia)

in our conformity to The World!!!!

>>Ephesians 2:1-5 
  • “And you, HE made alive
  • who were DEAD IN trespasses and sinnings
  • in which you walked according to the course of this world
  • according to the prince of the power of the air
  • the spirit who now(!) works in the sons of disobedience
  • among whom also we all once conducted ourselves
  • in the lusts of our flesh
  • fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind
  • and were by nature children of wrath just as the others.
  • But GOD, WHO is rich in mercy
  • because of HIS great love with which HE loved us
  • even when we WERE DEAD in trespasses
  • made us alive together with THE CHRIST
  • (by grace you have been saved). 

JESUS has already

dealt with

ALL THE SINNINGS of
MANKIND

  • by HIS redemption work in that cross in Calvary in A.D.33.

but by HIS New COVENANT

TERMS & CONDITIONS,

  • we are still to be sanctified
  • through that one-time offering of the body of JESUS THE CHRIST
  • for all of mankind (>>Hebrews 10:10).
  • HIS blood however was not shed for the remission of the sinnings of all
  • but only for the many (>>Matthew 26:28)!!!
  • THOSE MANY are they who
  • (in the way of Acts 2:37)
  • after believing in THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD of JESUS
  • and all HE did for us (>>Acts 2:14-36)

ASKS & OBEYS  further 

the other two specific

do-or-die commands

in >>Acts 2:38

  • which leads to the forgiveness of all our sinnings
  • we committed during all those years of
  • our not having believed
  • IN HIS LORDSHIP & CHRISTHOOD yet !!!!

SUCH FORGIVENESS

results
at that very instant

THE INDWELLING of
The Holy Spirit
IN US;

  • afterwhich,
  • we will just have to confess our every sinning we commit after that (>>1st John 1:9)
  • .... for our continuing sanctification....

“There will be a resurrection
of the dead, >>>T#007

both of the just and
the unjust!”---- >>Acts 24:15

  • PHYSICAL DEATH is not the end of any one!
  • After we DIE,

we ALL
will all rise

from our deaths!



>>John 5:24-29 ~


“Most assuredlyI say to you,

  • he who hears MY WORD
  • and BELIEVES IN Him Who SENT ME
  • has the everlasting life,
  • and shall not come into judgment,
  • but has passed from death into THE LIFE.

Most assuredlyI say to you,

  • the hour is coming and now is,
  • when the dead will hear the voice of THE SON of GOD
  • and they who hear will live.
  • For as The Father has THE LIFE in Himself,

so He has granted
THE SON

to have
THE LIFE
in HIMSELF

  • and has given HIM AUTHORITY
  • to execute JUDGMENT also
  • because HE is THE SON of Man.
  • Do not marvel at this
  • for the hour is coming in which all
  • who are in the graves will hear HIS voice and come forth
  • --- they who have done good,

to THE RESURRECTION
of THE LIFE

  • and they who have done evil,

to THE RESURRECTION of
CONDEMNATION.”

  • No doubt these truths were meant by THE CHRIST JESUS
  • to them who heard these words direct from HIS mouth then!!!

THE New COVENANT
TERMS & CONDITIONS,

  • of which HE is THE MEDIATOR,
  • >>Hebrews 8:6, 9:15, 12:24
  • took effect only ---- after
  • HE died and rose to heaven (>>Hebrews 9:15-17);
  • more specifically, on that Pentecost Day of A.D. 33
  • when The Holy Spirit first came to indwell IN believers
  • who repented and gotten themselves baptized
  • for no other purpose 
  • but for the remission of all their sinnings
  • committed prior to their believing in THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD of JESUS
  • and HIS REDEMPTION WORK as preached (>>Acts 2:14-36) by Peter for the first time !!!

>>John 6:53-58 Then, JESUS said to them
  • “Most assuredly, I say to you
  • unless you eat the flesh of THE SON of Man
  • and drink HIS blood
  • you have not THE LIFE in you.
  • Whoever eats MY flesh and drinks MY blood has the eternal life
  • and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • For MY flesh is food indeed
  • and MY blood is drink indeed.
  • He who eats MY flesh
  • and drinks MY blood
  • abides in ME
  • and I in him.
  • As The Living Father sent ME
  • and I live because of The Father,
  • so he who feeds on ME
  • will live because of ME.
  • This is THE BREAD which came down from heaven
  • --- not as your fathers ate the manna and are dead.
  • He who eats THIS BREAD will live forever. 

Flesh and blood is necessary
for physical life.
Even the loss of just either
spells death for man.

  • To eat is to partake into our inner being,
  • in our innermost beingin our spirit

and the call of JESUS
is to partake of HIS very life
as the way we abide in HIM

  • to assuredly share fully HIS resurrected LIFE IN ETERNITY!

>>John 6:63 ~
  • “It is The Spirit Who gives THE LIFE
  • the flesh profits nothing.
  • The Words that I speak to you are food for your spirit,
  • and they are for you THE LIFE. 


>>Romans 8:11 ~
  • “But if The Spirit of Him Who raised JESUS from the dead
  • dwells in you
  • He who raised JESUS from the dead
  • will also give THE LIFE to your mortal bodies
  • through HIS Spirit Who indwells you. 

Yes, only those
of us who have

THE INDWELLING
of The Holy Spirit
(>>>T#029)

  • and are continuously lead by The Holy Spirit (>>>T#030)

ARE THE SONS OF GOD

(>>Romans 8:14)

  • contrary to what denominationalists
  • andbelieve only
  • and instant salvation PREACHERS
  • claim based on >>John 1:12 which according to them
  • is thus: But as many as received Him, to them He gave THE TITLE children of Godto those who believe in His name.
  • But this is not so!!!!

They omitted and replaced
THE RIGHT TO BECOME

  • in GOD’s WORD with their own
  • THE TITLE children of GOD."

THE RIGHT TO BECOME
CHILDREN OF GOD

  • is not by believing only
  • BUT THROUGH
  • (not BY one-time utterance of your faith)
  • OUR FAITH IN THE CHRIST JESUS
  • which includes repenting and getting ourselves baptized
  • into THE CHRIST’s death, burial and resurrection
  • >>1st Corinthians 15: 1-4
  • as to be thereafter wearing or putting on THE CHRIST!
  • >>Galatians 3:26-27!
  • >>Romans 6:3-23!


>>2nd Thessalonians 1:7-8 ~ 
  • “…THE LORD JESUS is to be revealed from heaven
  • with HIS mighty angels.
  • In flaming fire TAKING VENGEANCE ON THEM
  • who do not know GOD,
  • and on them WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL of our LORD JESUS THE CHRIST. 

>>1st Corinthians 15:1-4 ~

  • Moreover, brethren, I declare to you THE GOSPEL
  • which I preached to you
  • which also you received
  • and in which you stand.
  • By which you are saved,

IF you hold fast

THAT WORD which

I preached to you

  • --- unless you believed in vain.
  • For I declared to you foremost of all
  • that which I also received

THAT THE CHRIST

DIED for OUR SINNINGS

  • according to THE SCRIPTURES
  • and that HE was buried
  • and that HE rose again the third day
  • according to THE SCRIPTURES
  • and we have to know HIM more in HIS resurrected status!

                                           ~~~#~~~

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